A bakery???
Posted on 03/08/2018 5:31:16 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
London (AFP) - Harvey Weinstein's lawyer said Saturday a woman having sex with a Hollywood producer to advance her career is "not rape", in a British newspaper interview on the eve of the Oscars.
Ben Brafman is one of the US' top criminal defence attorneys, hired by the disgraced Hollywood mogul whose career is in tatters following accusations of sexual harassment, assault and rape.
More than 100 women have accused Weinstein of impropriety going back 40 years, but Brafman argued there was no criminal behaviour.
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Women are too weak or stupid or moral to ever think of doing so demeaning.
Men (straight men, anyway) are evil oppressors that must be vanquished.
From a criminal law viewpoint all that this lawyer has to do is install reasonable doubt in one juror...and I think this ‘position’ does just that.
For civil, it may not be enough.
It is sexual harassment in the workplace.
Loose morals on both sides plays a part. The conscience will often play havoc on self image over time. Yet there many instances of date rape. Hollywood needs an open door policy, hell my dentist even keeps an assistant in the room.
And people need to fully understand the meaning of situational awareness (in ALL situations)!
A bakery???
At least since last Saturday night.
Not only is it prostitution but it is sexual harassment. Every boy and girl putting out on the casting couch is taking a job away from someone who won’t do it. If that isn’t a “hostile work place” nothing is.
If the movies these women were trying to get a part in, had explicit sex scenes in them, should the auditions have been a bit more public? Of the few Rose McGowan movies I’ve seen, I don’t know how you go about convincing anyone, that you’re the one for that role in a movie. There’s an entire part of the industry that Harvey has been a member of, that needs to come down.
Could be extortion, in which case it’s also rape. Yes, it can be argued the women had the option of working elsewhere, I suppose; however, if somebody told you that, “You’ll never work in this industry or this state again unless you....”, you would probably consider it extortion. It would be interesting to see the arguments from both sides in that regard.
Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.
Was it a case of "I really don't want to, the guy is a pig, but if I refuse I won't get the part..." ?
If the women did not IMMEDIATELY report it to the police as rape, then a case for consent could be made. As with the campus rape accusations along the lines of "He didn't ask for another date, I feel violated!"
Why is this suddenly news? Didn’t everyone see the Pia Zadora movie THE LONELY LADY back in the 1980s, in which she “sleeps” her way to the top? (except she wasn’t sleeping.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085863/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_11
Ben is just demonstrating the fine line between being a lawyer and a prostitute.
I agree- it’s commerce, and should be regarded as prostitution.
Both are criminals in that case.
I remember about 12 years ago when a NM cop was caught on camera with a woman he pulled over for a traffic infraction. Talk about getting it on!
Oh that should go over well. Bill Clinton should have used that justification.
This is being argued from the career perspective but I’ve always wondered about it at the job level. To do most mainstream movies, actresses have to consent to doing sex scenes. Sure, most of the heavy stuff is simulated and body doubles... but a lot of it isn’t. There is touching and groping that would get people arrested in “normal” society... but for them, it’s the everyday workplace.
I’ve said for years that most of the actresses in Hollywood are turned into prostitutes—using their bodies for money... just with millions more people involved in the oggling and millions more in the paycheck.
“If you’re a woman, sex is a commodity, assuming you’re immoral enough to use it that way.”
Women use sex like men use cologne. Women are not inherently honest. Were it not for their vajayjays, why would men live with them, hire them, even bother with them? Why are so many men switching to men these days?
Women that slept their way up the ladder (practiced for millennia), now claiming rape? ROTFLMAO!
Women need men like fish need bicycles?
Well, men need women like birds need anchors.
(Flamesuit on.)
As Siskel and Ebert said years ago, if a girl does not want to do such scenes, there are hundreds in the wings just waiting to strut their stuff.
IIRC, sexual coercion is a crime in CA. If it was when the alleged acts took place, Winston can be charged with it.
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